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Flint Hills, Kansas Imagine more than 14,500 square miles of tallgrass prairie that almost dissects Kansas from north to south.
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The journal is an online database about the ecology, history and culture of the tallgrass prairie.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2025
Walking along the land's two-mile path, miniature ecosystems mimicking the state's tallgrass prairies, wetlands, savannas and more are revealed.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
Big bluestem, the state grass of Illinois and one of the dominant grasses of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, may reach 7 to 8 feet high in late summer, culminating in a blueish three-pronged head shaped like a turkey foot, with a root system reaching down into the soil 10 to 12 feet deep.
—Franz Burnier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The journal is an online database about the ecology, history and culture of the tallgrass prairie.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2025
Walking along the land's two-mile path, miniature ecosystems mimicking the state's tallgrass prairies, wetlands, savannas and more are revealed.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
Big bluestem, the state grass of Illinois and one of the dominant grasses of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, may reach 7 to 8 feet high in late summer, culminating in a blueish three-pronged head shaped like a turkey foot, with a root system reaching down into the soil 10 to 12 feet deep.
—Franz Burnier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Tallgrass prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tallgrass%20prairie. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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